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Week
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Topics
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Assignment
Due
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1/22
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§Introduction
to course.
§Walking
tour of MetroTech.
§William
Blake, �London� |
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1/29
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Methodology
§From
Alan Jacobs, Looking at Cities:�Starting
to Look� and "Clues"
§Film,
The
Social Life of Small Urban Space §E.
B. White, "Here Is New York" |
MetroTech
impression piece.
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2/5
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The
City and Nature
§Bruner
Case Study:NYC
Greenmarket
§Robert
Sommer, �Farmers' Markets as Community Events�
§From
the pastoral to the urban:Poems
by Yeats, Wordsworth, Whitman, and Auden |
Reading
response to two poems.
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2/12
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§Bruner
Case Study:Harlem
Meer
§�Olmsted�s
Trip�
§John
Updike, �Spring Rain" §Loren
Eiseley, �The Judgment of Birds� §Lewis
Thomas, "Antaeus in Manhattan" §Roger
Ulrich, "View Through a Window May Influence Recovery from Surgery" §Hartig,
et
al, "Restorative Effects of Natural Environment Experiences" |
Reading
response to two texts.
Case
study site proposal.
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2/19
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Presidents'
Day � NO CLASS
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2/26
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City
People: Connections/ Disconnections
§�Bartleby
the Scrivener�
§�The
Overcoat�
§Bruner
Case Study, "Beyond Homelessness" |
Response
to �Bartleby� or �Overcoat.�
City
story proposal.
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3/5
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Danger
in the City
§Paule
Marshall, "Poets in the Kitchen"
§Israel
Horvitz, "The Indian Wants the Bronx" §"Defensible
Space:Deterring Crime and Building
Community" §Randall
Atlas and William LeBlanc, "The Impact of Environmental Road Devices on
Crime:Case Study Miami Shores, FL" |
Response
to "Poets" or "Indian."
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3/12
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Spring
Break � NO CLASS
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3/19
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Empowering
the Self
§Bruner
Case Studies:The
Times Square and Tenant Interim Lease Project
§From
The
Bluest Eye and The Invisible Man
§�The
Lesson� §Langston
Hughes, "Landlord, Landlord" and "Harlem" |
Response
to Bluest Eye, Invisible Man or �Lesson.�
City
story.
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3/26
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The
City and History
§Film,
The
History of Paris
§Charles
Baudelaire, �The Swan� and other selections from Parisian Scenes
§Roland
Barthes, �Eiffel Tower� §Isaac
Bashevis Singer, �The Cafeteria� |
Response
to �The Swan� and Freud.
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4/2
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§ Bruner
Case Study: Greenpoint
Manufacturing Co-Op
§Marshall
Berman, "In the Forest of Symbols:Some
Notes on Modernism in New York"
§Bruner
Awards, "What Was Learned About Excellence"
§From
Jonathan Kozol, Amazing Grace |
Methodology
project.
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4/9
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The
City and the Arts
§ James
Baldwin, �Sonny�s Blues�
§Jazz;
video, Voices and Visions:Langston
Hughes
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Response
to �Sonny�s Blues.�
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4/16
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§ Bruner
Case Study: Project
Rowhouse
§ Art
in and about the city
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Response
to two paintings.
Case
study outline.
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4/23
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§Trip
to Brooklyn Bridge
§Hart
Crane�s �Brooklyn Bridge�
§Graffiti |
Response
to story.
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4/30
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Case
study workshop
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Case
study draft.
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5/__
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(Date
of final exam)
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Final
case study.
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